The captain is at home at the moment, discussing the release of water from the reservoir with several other cadres in the brigade.

Seeing my mother helping Zhang Xiuhua in, I was a little surprised, "What's going on?"

The captain's mother immediately urged her son to borrow food quickly, "You've been hungry for two meals, and your body is very weak. Don't let anything happen to you."

The team leader immediately asked the accountant to get the work points book.

Zhang Xiuhua only got 7 work points, which was not much. But Gao Lixuan was not coming back, so all the work points could be collected by Zhang Xiuhua.

The accountant assigned all of Gao Lixuan's work points to Zhang Xiuhua and borrowed 50 kilograms of grain, which had to be distributed only after the autumn harvest.

Zhang Xiuhua pressed her fingerprints and followed the accountant to the warehouse to collect food.

Seeing her frail body, the captain's mother was worried that she might not be able to cope with it, so she went over to help.

The autumn harvest was coming soon, and the granary of the team was almost empty. Many pockets were left with only a little bit of leather.

The accountant lets them choose for themselves.

Zhang Xiuhua picked up the grains, which included soybeans, corn, rice, peanuts, wheat, red beans, mung beans, etc.

The red beans and mung beans were already infested with worms, so Zhang Xiuhua didn't want any. She took five kilograms of soybeans, ten kilograms of corn, twenty kilograms of rice, ten kilograms of wheat, and five kilograms of peanuts.

After weighing the grain, the captain's mother borrowed a wheelbarrow from the team to help transport it back.

She was still thinking about the matchmaking, so Zhang Xiuhua had to listen even if she didn't want to.

But after the captain's mother finished talking about Xu Dayong's situation, Zhang Xiuhua sighed, "Aunt, I know you are doing this for my own good. You want me to raise two children, but I don't want to have any more."

Xu Dayong could indeed accept two children, but if she married into his family, she would have to have another child. Thinking of the two evil deeds in her previous life, she refused to have another child no matter what. Even if she remarried another man, she still didn't want to have another child.

It's not that she was afraid that the other party would be like Xu Dayong, but she knew that half of her suffering in her previous life was due to the viciousness of the Xu family, and the other half was due to her lack of self-discipline. She gave birth to so many children. She obviously didn't have the ability to raise them, but she gave birth to four. She didn't want to fall into the passive situation of her previous life again, so she could only stick to her bottom line.

The captain was stunned for a moment, a little confused, "Why?"

Zhang Xiuhua hinted vaguely with an expression that was difficult to explain, "After giving birth to Jilin, my waist hurt so much that I don't want to have another child."

At that time, not only were living conditions poor, but medical conditions were also poor, and women who had given birth always had some gynecological diseases. The captain's mother understood and looked at him with a little sympathy.

"Even for the sake of my two children, I have to live well. If I get married and die in childbirth, what will happen to my two children?" Zhang Xiuhua knew that the captain's mother had good intentions. This person was just a matchmaker. She also asked Xu Jiacun about Xu Dayong's personality and conditions, and when she thought he was suitable for her, she introduced him to her.

She had been with Xu Dayong for more than half a year, but she didn't see through his hypocrisy. The captain only heard about it from others, so how could she know what the Xu family was like inside.

What's more, mama's boy is not a product of thirty years ago, he is everywhere now.

Besides, the other party’s son is the captain and he cannot be offended, so I can only take the emotional route.

The captain's mother was an old lady who enjoyed the blessing of her children. When she heard that Zhang Xiuhua decided not to have any more children for the sake of the two mentioned above, she felt that this person was finally more reliable.

She followed Zhang Xiuhua's line of thought and thought, "Then you can only be someone's stepmother."

After all, men marry to continue the family line.

Zhang Xiuhua nodded. She knew that it was a planned economy now, and she could barely support her two children by earning work points in the team. But her work points were too few, so she would definitely not get any money. How could she send her children to school or buy clothes for them?

If, like in her previous life, she went out to work and earn money, leaving the two children at home, would Jilin be kidnapped? Would Baolin learn bad things from others?

After much thought, she really had no choice but to remarry. But this time she had to stay at home with her children and firmly grasp the power of the family. After the reform and opening up, when the children went to school, she could also do some small business.

With a plan in mind, Zhang Xiuhua also had a rough idea of ​​her other half. "Aunt, you are right. I really can't support two children. So I want to choose a man who can make money. It doesn't matter if he has children. I will raise them together. It's just a matter of having an extra pair of chopsticks. But he has to let me run the household. And I don't want to live with my mother-in-law. He has to be a good person."

The captain's wife immediately looked at her with new eyes, "You have made progress after all. Before, you were fooled by a man and let him take away all your food and money. Now you know the importance of money, so you are not hopeless. Okay, I will arrange it for you, just wait. It's hard to find a three-legged frog in this world, but there are plenty of two-legged men."

Zhang Xiuhua responded, and then remembered something, "Aunt, my brother is gone, and my eldest sister-in-law remarried. My two children are the only children of the Zhang family. Can I live in my eldest brother's house?"

The thatched hut she lives in now is old and broken. It rains heavily outside and drizzles inside. After the autumn harvest, winter comes. What will happen to her two children?

The captain's wife was confused for a long time before she realized what she was talking about. She was successfully misled. "You are a married woman, how can you live in your eldest brother's house? Besides, isn't that house occupied by your third brother's family?"

Zhang Xiuhua's biological mother died twenty years ago. Her father later married a widow with two boys. Zhang Xiuhua called them second brother and third brother.

Zhang Xiuhua had never gotten along with them since she was a child. She curled her lips when she heard this and said, "They don't have the surname Zhang. Why can they live in our Zhang family's house?"

The captain's wife replied subconsciously, "You are a married woman, and your child doesn't have the surname Zhang."

This is true. Married-out daughters are not eligible to inherit homesteads and farmland. This is still the case thirty years later.

Zhang Xiuhua grabbed the captain's mother's arm, and the wheelbarrow was almost deviated by her. Zhang Xiuhua didn't care, and held her hand to signal her to stop first, "I am not a married woman. I can change the surnames of the two children, so that I am equivalent to marrying in. Can I live in my brother's house?"

The captain's wife opened her mouth and asked, "Don't you want to remarry?"

"I am penniless now and have only two burdens. Even if my aunt finds me a man who can earn work points, he can only solve the problem of food and clothing for the three of us. No matter how generous a man is, he will not prepare a homestead for my son or a dowry for my daughter. I am his mother, and I have to arrange things for him in advance." Zhang Xiuhua looked like a good mother who was wholeheartedly planning for her son.

The captain's mother was not moved by her this time. She introduced Zhang Xiuhua to someone and got a matchmaker's fee, but she didn't get any benefit from intervening in Zhang's family affairs. Why bother getting involved in this?

She didn't answer. Zhang Xiuhua thought about it and understood. Who in the world would serve you for free? She smiled and pulled the captain's mother's arm, smiling like a flower, trying her best to emit an alluring fragrance. "Auntie, if you can get the captain to do justice for me, I guarantee that the money you get will not be less than the matchmaker's money."

The captain's mother's eyes lit up and her cloudy eyes turned. If Zhang Xiuhua really changed her child's surname, it was indeed a marriage between the wife and the son, and it was natural for her son to inherit the Zhang family's homestead. No one could say no. The only trouble here was Zhang Xiuhua's difficult stepmother and second brother. But the two lived in the village and did not dare to offend her son.

She had a plan in mind, and seemed to have made up her mind. "I'll take care of this. After dinner, go to the police station to register the two children. In the evening, go to my house, and call your father, your stepmother, and your second and third brothers to make them convinced."

Nowadays, household registration books are all handwritten, which is a lot of work. In addition to adults, children are not required to register. Therefore, many people will take advantage of this opportunity to register the purchased children as their own children.

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